Carbon Capture and Its Exigent Need to Mitigate Climate Change

Abstract

The recent reports on Climate change issued by various international forums state our planet Earth is getting degraded day by day and the same is reflected by the unprecedented events of simultaneous natural disasters as floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, forest fires, cyclones, diseases, etc. all over the world. Therefore, there is an urgent need to wake up and take efforts to mitigate the loss and leave a better place for our upcoming generations to live in. Because we have not inherited this planet from our ancestors rather, we have borrowed it from our children.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is one of the greenhouse gases responsible for the rapid rise in global temperature and in turn climate change. Around 60% of worldwide temperature alteration impacts are credited to carbon dioxide emanation. In recent times, CO2 is at present viewed as an undesired side-effect of our normal exercises, which shatteringly affects the environment. In general, there are a few carbon capture approaches are accessible to lessen the absolute CO2 outflow into the climate of which Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) is the chief innovation by which CO2 is captured and put away from the climate for extremely prolonged stretch of time. CCS is thought of as a fundamental system for meeting CO2 emanation decrease targets.[1] However, sequestration rules the current attitude toward momentary clarifications to an Earth-wide temperature boost.[2] Evidently CCS has various huge downsides, for example, high beginning up cost; high-energy data sources and trouble in tracking down appropriate destinations, as well as shagginess with respect to CO2 spillage in groundwater and soil.

The current paper would ascertain the need of carbon capture and how it would be utilized towards mitigating the climate related issues and suggesting changes and mitigative techniques on that behalf.